A villa with treasures after the legendary Czech actor to Vladimír Menšík († 58) it can be yours. However, the interested party has to take it out of his pocket almost 9.5 million Czech crowns (about 390 thousand euros), states, which his grandson Martin (47) turned to. In addition to the house, the new owner will also receive a collection of items from one of the unforgettable Czech comedians, adds.
Martin was helped by his father Petr Menšík (70), whom he had with his first wife, with the reconstruction of the house he bought in a dilapidated condition. Couple together she was able to repair 380 m² of living space and she also has a plot of land with an area of 2800 square meters. The owner, however wants to quickly sell and move after two years of approval and hard work.
The new destination will be Brno. “His second wife has a very sick mother there, and her daughter from a previous relationship has already started going to high school in Brno,” the Czech website learned from the neighbors. “The bathrooms are very luxurious, Mr. Menšík made them himself. He works as a tiler and used the best materials for his house,” added broker Zita Blažková. PHOTO from the interior of the house can be found in the gallery!
Vladimír Menšík was born on October 9, 1929 in Ivančice in South Moravia. He came from a working-class family. Since childhood, he liked to go to the circus, played in Adolf Pištelák’s music group and was attracted to acting. However, his father directed him to mechanical engineering. Vladimír Menšík graduated from industrial school and joined the Brnianské strojárny.
On the second attempt, however, he was accepted to the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, which he graduated in 1953. He got a place in the itinerant Village Theater, where he was noticed by EF Burian. After a year, he transferred to him, but the strict discipline in Burian’s troupe did not suit him, so from 1958 he became a member of the freelance acting troupe of the Barrandov Film Studio.
He flashed in front of the camera for the first time in a construction film directed by KM Walló called Great Opportunity (1950). In 1956, a more significant role came in the film Dědeček automobile directed by Alfréd Radok. In the film King of Šumava, Menšík was able to combine comic speech with the ability to give the character dramatic features. The role of the waiter Kici in the detective story 105% alibi was similar.
He created one of the main roles in the comedy Hledá se tá, as well as in the crime comedy Mezi námi, zloději. Despite this, he often appeared as the protagonist of smaller but unforgettable comic or tragicomic characters enlivening the plot. That’s exactly how men in police uniforms were, trying in vain to inspire authority – in Zdenek Podskalský’s comedies The White Lady and You Can’t Hit a Woman or a Flower, in the film Who Wants to Kill Jessie or in the crime drama The Beautiful Dragoon.
He brilliantly played the small roles of a casual spectator in the drama Burner of Corpses or a robbed lover in the popular Světák by Zdeňk Podskalský. Menšík got a big acting space in an unusual genre with the role of a sadistic murderer in the absurd comedy Happy End by Oldřich Lipský, whose plot is shown backwards. The acting concert with Jiřina Bohdalová was the film Murder Ing. The devil. The fairy tale Three Nuts for Cinderella is still popular today.
About the fact that comedies remained Menšík’s playground, the audience could convince themselves in the films Sir, you are a widow, The Straw Hat, How to drown Dr. Cloud and How about having some spinach. Menšík became one of the most cast actors in entertainment television programs. He presented the televised New Year’s Eve in 1977, 1978 and 1979, and appeared in countless television skits and sketches with his acting partner Jiřina Bohdalová. He also played in the series Pan Tau and Arabela.
At the same time, however, dramatic roles awaited Vladimír Menšík – especially in the television production The Fall of Icarus, written by Jiří Hubač and directed by František Filip. The play, whose main theme was alcoholism, was awarded at the Golden Prague and Monte Carlo International Television Festivals. In 1983, it was followed by the sequel Tažní ptáci. Vladimír Menšík did not get to see the filming of the third part of Winter of the Pilgrims.
The actor suffered from worsening asthma, which he got at the age of 35. He gradually learned to inject himself in order to be able to work. He was last in front of the camera in 1988 in Dušan Klein’s film The Good Pigeons Are Returning.
At the end of May 1988, television broadcast a live broadcast of the entertainment program ABECEDA from the Rondo hall in Brno, where Menšík was also scheduled to perform. However, he ended up in the hospital, kand to the applause of the audience on Saturday evening, the presenter Magdaléna Dietlová sent him a greeting and wished him a speedy recovery. The next day, in the evening of May 29, 1988, Vladimír Menšík lost his battle with the disease.
